Come on, give me the chills

Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.

Author: Andrea Grassi

  • the list of goodness

    We are used to list the bad things in life. mostly because they are easy to remember.
    It’s a real shame because good always happens to us, from the beauty of a sunrise, to a smile, to a compliment we are filled with good things around us, yet we remember none.

    This is particularly important when you age.
    Every birthday you count the mediocrity you’ve lived, the bad things that didn’t go as expected, the things you failed at.

    You usually don’t search for the good, but the good was always there.
    Why not taking a chance and listing them too?

  • getting things done

    To get things done you must get things done.

    There’s no easy way out.

  • my personal human commandments

    • Try and try again
    • Change continuously
    • Be true to yourself
    • Be honest
    • Always try to understand other’s point of view, because you’ve been there
    • Be present
    • Enjoy life in the smallest things, never ignoring the beauty in the simple life
    • Respect your time, you’ve got a limit. Life isn’t about how many, but how good.
    • Play, run, laugh, even when times are changing, even when the times are hard.
    • Say thanks more than once in a while
    • Say yes enough times to scary things
    • Say no enough times to things that won’t let you be happy
    • Give back possibly more than what the world gave to you
    • Love, always, openly, sincerely
    • Share the feelings and don’t let anyone you care about be ignorant about your feelings.
    • Failing is trying, enjoy the failure as part of your grow
    • Travel, see the world with open eyes
    • Listen more, talk less, because you will always got something to learn from everyone
    • Don’t run away
    • Take it slow
    • From time to time spend
    • Don’t be afraid to show your emotions
    • Work enough to pay the bills, use the rest of the time to live your life.
    • Give always a third chance, you’ve been there too.

  • changing as a way of living

    How many times did you changed habits just because you wanted to?

    When you change habits you go discover your vulnerabilities, your weakness, you learn a lot.
    This happens mostly because when you do that you both

    • Disrupt an old habit
    • Install a new one

    It ain’t easy, but it’s really worth it.

    I change habits a lot, mostly because I become fascinated by the new inputs in my life and I want to learn more about that.

    My breakfast change usually every year, and every time there’s something new to adapt, to add, to change.
    It’s incredible.

    This way of changing and trying has helped me way beyond the comfort zone, it has helped me believe that we all can change, we can alter what we are and be different, not for the sake of being different, but because we want to achieve something.

  • the meaning of play

    I guess I still haven’t understood perfectly the meaning of play, although I might say that I try to study it as much as possible.

    Play as never-ending game. Play as deep enjoyment.

    I first heard about Play when I was listening to the power of vulnerability, an audio book by Brene Brown.
    From that listening on, many things shifted. I remember how much controversial that book it was to me.
    It wasn’t controversial because I was against its preaching but because it challenged everything I knew with some kind of new knowledge that was (and still is) difficult to translate into action.

    We are used to our way of life, we are used to how we think.
    Changing that is pretty difficult, but not impossible.

    Play had a primary role into that book, because with play you free yourself.

    That was the same conclusion Josh Waitzkin got in his book “The art of learning”, but he applied to a slightly different topic.

    Reading both books made me realize that we all need to play.